Mobile Composition, 2017, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne. Quilted aniline goat leather, artist publication, HD video. Photos: Lucy Dawkins

Mobile Composition is an installation and artist book that develop through one another, focusing on the interior of Alvar Aalto-designed Maison Louis Carré and the art collection of Paris art dealer Louis Carré, for whom the house was built. Working from archival photographs that fix the collection at a specific moment in 1962, amidst a constant flow of paintings in and out of the house, the project examines its movement and posthumous dispersal and attempts to reconvene it through other means. Acting as placeholders, eighteen key works were traced and (re)produced in quilted black goat leather, retaining only the titles and dimensions of the originals, and installed and documented to restage the original photographs.

Named after a small standing mobile in the collection by Alexander Calder, the work considers how artefacts and architecture might move through the world and collide in ways that open up access to peripheral histories and wider narratives.

Supported by the British Council with Arts Council England, the Australia Council for the Arts and Association Alvar Aalto en France.